Mad Englishmen who work in the midday sun, that’s what.
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| Clipsal flat brushed aluminium metal power socket |
I had the call to say that my sockets had arrived, and after I wandered down to the ‘Mall’ (As Aussies call their rather small decrepit shopping centres on the outskirts of an equally small decrepit industrial estate) I the usual conversation about “I ordered this” “They don’t make ‘em” “Oh yes they do”. I could see it wasn’t going very well, but I didn’t realise it was going to go downhill from here. The occer kept on assuring me that Clipsal never makes flat plate aluminium sockets, and when he finally did look in the catalogue, and then just about got over his hangover enough to look in the storeroom to find my sockets. He didn’t however move fast enough (it’s that hangover over again... see, it will come up and bite you!) to stop me from seeing the piece of paper with the order on the front. “Order: 5 plates Name: Posh Pom”.
No wonder then that he decided to charge me a totally different price from the one I was first quoted. It started out at $77, then went up to $87, and we finally settled on $83. Nothing like fleecing the tourists.
That really gets up my goat.
